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| Stanford`s New Solar Tech Harnesses Heat, Light |  |
| An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from a Stanford news release:
"Stanford engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could make solar power production more than twice as efficient as existing methods and potentially cheap enough to compete with oil. Unlike photovoltaic technology currently used in solar panels — which becomes less efficient as the temperature rises — the new process excels at higher temperatures. ... `This is really a conceptual breakthrough, a new energy conversion process, not just a new material or a slightly different tweak,` said Nick Melosh, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering, who led the research group. `It is actually something fundamentally different about how you can harvest energy.` And the materials needed to build a device to make the process work are cheap and easily available, meaning the power that comes from it will be affordable."
The abstract for the researchers` paper is available at Nature.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| Riding the solar wave of energy | |
| When Chaves County`s planning and zoning director received 14 applications for solar panels in a single day, he figured the growing interest in solar warranted discussion. |
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| New Solar Energy Process Doubles Efficiency | |
| The process, called "photon enhanced thermionic emission," or PETE, could reduce the costs of solar energy production enough for it to compete with oil as an energy source. |
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| OutBack Power Technologies Welcomes New Director of Product Management | |
| OutBack Power Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of reliable and durable power electronics products for renewable energy applications worldwide, welcomes Phil Undercuffler as Director of Product Management and Strategy. |
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| Interns restart careers in renewable energy field | |
| Rob Peck and Tim Janssen probably don`t fit the image most people have of a summer intern. |
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| Top Green Power Purchasers | |
| For many years, the voluntary market for renewable energy was the main driver for the market. Today, it`s state-level renewable energy targets. Even so, the voluntary market is still going strong, reports the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. |
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| Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo North America CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! | |
| Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo North America, set for March 8-10 in Tampa, Florida, is now accepting abstract submittals for the 2011 conference program. Submit your abstracts by Friday, August 13, 2010 and take advantage of the opportunity to share your insight with the renewable energy industry and gain visibility for your company or abstract concept. |
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